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Kayleigh Skinner covers education, government, politics and how they intersect and impact the lives of people in Mississippi. She is also instrumental in Mississippi Today’s fact-check series and curates The Bell, Mississippi Today’s monthly education newsletter. Kayleigh has a bachelor’s in journalism from the School of Journalism and New Media from the University of Mississippi. She has been recognized as a member of the 2018 class of the ProPublica and Ida B. Wells Society Data Institute and a member of the 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award-winning team. She is also a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Education Writers Association and the National Association of Black Journalists. Before joining the Mississippi Today editorial team January 2017, Kayleigh worked for The Hechinger Report, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal and Chalkbeat Tennessee. Her work has also appeared on PBS NewsHour.
Lawyers for the parents challenging the charter school law ask “can the Legislature force a school district to share its maintenance tax levy with other school districts?”
The state authorizer board will announce the applicants moving forward in the process in early July.
Jim Hood, the state’s Democratic attorney general seeking the governorship, vows appeal.
With the bar raised, 74.5 percent of students passed the exam compared to 93.2 percent last year. Students who didn’t pass initially have two more chances over the summer.
Mississippi is one of several states this year to curtail access to abortion, which could set up a challenge to Roe V. Wade
Corinth High School uses an innovative program that emphasizes critical thinking over memorization. Now, they’re fighting the state to make sure the school’s success receives the recognition it deserves
Yazoo City community members heard this week from the superintendent leading the effort to turnaround Humphreys County and Yazoo City schools following the state’s takeover. “Something had to happen,” said one resident.
Historian shows how white women under the authority of their husbands found freedom, power in slave ownership while also allowing readers to “grapple with the fact that feminism can be an ugly thing at times.”
Dr. Carey Wright, the state education superintendent, said the department can cover the costs of the pay raises until the Legislature reconvenes early next year
Last year, the state department of education wanted $2 million to upgrade a 20-year-old computer system. The Legislature gave the agency $500,000.
One official questions if it’s permissible for the Education Department to now take money already earmarked for other purposes and direct it to the pay raise.
Those not included in the pay raise are in the fields of career technical education, special education, gifted classes and a certain group of teacher assistants.
The Mississippi Association of Educators polled teachers through a Facebook survey about whether they would be willing to strike, participate in a sick out, or campaign for and against political candidates
Audit says if out of classroom spending “had been kept the same … over the last ten years,” Mississippi could give teachers an $11,000 pay raise. Education advocates say report is overly broad and not fair.
Yazoo City Municipal and Humphreys County districts will see their local school boards dissolved and replaced by the state Board of Education. Former educator notes poverty is a common denominator in the Delta districts.